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LimeWire
https‌://limewire.‌com ⋮

LimeWire

LimeWire is your Al-powered content publishing platform. Create, publish and monetize images, videos & music with the power of Al.

Create Image with Al

LimeWire Al Studio is a free Al Image Generator that allows …

Sign In

Sign In to LimeWire … LimeWire Terms and Conditions and…

Al Studio

LimeWire Al Studio is a free Al Art generator that turns your words …

Introducing the New LimeWire

Meet the new LimeWire: The first truly mainstream NFT platform …

Went to see if limewire was still a thing and got shot 4 times with a gun

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  • @6mementomori
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    611 months ago

    what’s line wire supposed to be?

    • hswolf
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      4811 months ago

      it’s the way we used to get our music for free back then

    • DrDominate
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      -1511 months ago

      Torrenting software. And a darn good one too

      • @dustyData
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        5411 months ago

        P2P, not torrent. Torrent is P2P but not all P2P is torrenting.

      • vortic
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        11 months ago

        It was simply peer to peer file sharing rather than torrenting. Torrenting allows you to collect different parts of the file from different people. Lime Wire just depending on a stable connection between you and the host machine.

        It was also full of fake shit and viruses. I remember spending hours getting rid of “Gator” a couple of times as a stupid college student.

        • @busteray
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          210 months ago

          I swear I remember limewire having the equivalent of seeds and files being downloaded from multiple places at the same time.

          Mandela effect?

          • @[email protected]
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            110 months ago

            Yeah I’m with you, hell I even remember being on WinMX before that and even that having multiple seeds?

      • @RealFknNito
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        911 months ago

        Yeah it was so good that every download was a gamble if you were getting the song you wanted or uncensored war footage and cp